Tail-holding device for shirt-pressing machines



Jan. 31, 1928. 1,657,564

. A. B. CLISSON TAIL HOLDING DEVICE FOR SHIRT PRESSING MACHINES FiledMay 12, 1926 A i INVENTOR.

A TTORNEYS Patented Jan. 31, 1928.

UNITED STATES 1,657,564 PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT B. CLISSON, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE PROSPERITYCOM- PANY INC., SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

TAIL-HOLDING DEVICE FOR SHIRT-PRESSING MACHINES.

a lication filed May 12,

This invention relates to shirt ironing machines and has for its objecta particularly simple and efiicient means for holding the tails of theshirt after the shirt has been stretched in ironing position on thetable or buck.

The invention consists in the novel features and in the combinations andconstructions hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In describing this invention reference is had to the accompanyingdrawings in which like numerals designate corresponding parts in all theviews.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a pressing machine embodying thisinvention.

Figures 2 and 3 are respectively a plan view and a front elevation ofthe ironingtable or buck.

This invention comprises, generally, a tail holder mounted on andextending transversely of the ironing table or buck near one end thereofor near the end remote from the neck band clamp, which tail holder isfor the most part located below the surface of the padding on the buck.

1 designates the ironing table or buck mounted on a suitable frame 2.

3 is a press head movable toward and from the buck and carried in anysuitable manner as by a yoke 4 pivoted at 5 to the frame and actuated bany suitable mechanism unnecessary to escribe herein as the constructionof such mechanism is well known in the art.

6 is the padding on the buck, and 7 the neck band clamp of any suitableconstruction.

The buck is rectangular in general form and provided with cut-outs 8 atthe corners thereof at which the shoulders of a shirt are located whenbeing ironed. The padding is composed of sections, the main sectionterminating short of the end of the buck remote from the neck bandholder and the other section 9 being detachably mounted on the face ofthe buck, and being spaced apart from the main section forming a channelat 10 in which the tail holder 11 is arranged.

This section 9 is detachablv mounted in position by spring means incuding spring arms as 12 extending under the table or buck near oppositeedges thereof, and itrictionally engaged with under-marginal surfaces atis on the buck.

1926. Serial No. 108,458.

The tail holder 10 consists of a suitable.

base or backing having prongs projecting upwardly, the prongsterminating near or slightly above the plane of the face of the padding.This tail holder is usually card in mounted on a suitable back as 15.

n operation, the operator after arranging and stretching the shirt orthe front of the shirt on the buck l and in so doing pulling against theend edge of the buck, and the neck band clamp, presses the tail of theshirt on the prongs of holder 11 so that the shirt is held stretchedwhile the press head is coming down on the. work to iron it. 1

What I claim is:- 1. An ironin table for pressing machines, said ironingta le having a tail holder extending transversely thereof near one endof the table, the table having a padding thereon, the tail holder beinglocated between the ends of the padding whereby the padding is locatedon opposite sides of the tail holder and the tail holder is embedded inthe padding, and the tail holder being located with its upper surfacenear the level of the surface of the pudding.

2. An ironing table for pressing machines having a padding thereonconsisting of sec-- tions, one section terminating short of the end ofthe table and the other section being located at the endof the table anddetachably mounted thereon and spaced apart from the former sectionforming a transverse channel on the face of the ironing table, and atail holder located in said channel.

8. An ironing table for said pressing machines having a padding thereonconsisting of sections, one section terminating short of the end of thetable, and the other section being located at the end of the table anddetachably mounted thereon and spaced apart from the former sectionforming a transverse channel on the face of the ironing table, and atail holder located in said channel, said tail holder having upwardlyextending prongs terminating near the plane of the upper surface or thepadding.

4, An ironing table for shirt pressing machines having a padding thereonconsisting of sections, one section terminating short of the end of thetable and the other section being located at the end of the table anddetachably mounted thereon and spaced apart from the former sectionforming a transverse lid channel on the face of the ironing table, and atail holder located in said channel, the movable section having meansfor clamping it to the table.

5. An ironing table for shirt pressing machines having a padding thereonconsisting of sections, one section terminating short of the end of thetable and the other section being located at the end of the table anddetachably mounted thereonand spaced apart from the former sectionforming a transverse channel on the face of the ironing table, and atail holder located in said channel, the removable section having springmeans for engaging the underside of the table and clamping it on theface of the table, said spring means including spring leavesfrictionally engaging the under-face of the ironing table.

6. The combination with an ironing table, of a padding therefor havingmeans for securing it to the table including a leaf spring arm rigidwith the padding and having a resilient portion arranged to extendaround the edge of the table and under the same to frictionally engagethe under side of the table.

7. The combination with an ironing table of a padding therefor havingmeans for securing it to the table including a leaf spring arm rigidwith the padding and having a resilient portion arranged to extendaround the edge of the table and under the same to frictionally engagethe under side of the table, the resilient portion being com arativelylong and engaging the under si e of the table at a point remote in ahorizontal direction from the point where the arm is socured to thepadding.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name, at Syracuse, inthe coimty of Onondaga, and in the State ofNew York, this 26th day offiril, 1926.

BERT B. CLISSON.

